Psychology as a career

A society is defined by its people, their culture, social behavior, their thinking and the way they perceive and implement things. Persons living in a particular group form the part of the society living in and are in some way dependent on each other. A society can be referred to a small group, a region or even a country, depending upon the type of its classification.

Social behavior, political strategies, regional policies, secularism are the factors which contribute in running a smooth and wrestle-free society. People’s responsibility towards their country, its assets, and their realization of them being the need of a good citizen is very important to let the country grow in the rightful direction. These responsibilities, acts- to do or not to do, communication style, are ought to be learnt by the citizen of the society from very beginning. They are meant to be trained the way the country wants them to behave. And to train and judge the behavior of different people, we have social scientists or psychologists. The role of a psychologist is to understand the various mental abilities of a human being and the ways in which he performs or reacts to a particular situation and their respective reasons.

With the increasing complexities in the daily life, the need for psychologists has increased. Also, students take more interest in this course due to the scope of digging into the human mind and the reasons of their particular behavior at certain situations. Students from the background of medicine can apply for this course, with biology being the subject in their senior secondary examination. The different topics which a student has to study as apart of his psychology course are cognition, motivation, human behavior, interpersonal communication procedures, emotions, perception, attention, personality, human relations, etc.

Various fields in which psychology specializations are provided are:

v     Clinical Psychology course

v     School Psychology course

v     Counseling Psychology course

v     Experimental Psychology course

v     Child Psychology course

Some of the Colleges providing B Sc. as well as M. Sc courses in Psychology in India are:

• Department of Psychology, Delhi University
• Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi
• University of Madras, Chennai
• Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore
• Bhopal Vishwavidyalaya, Bhopal
• Andhra University, Andhra Pradesh
• Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar
• Punjab University, Patialla
• Sardar Patel University, Gujarat
• Gujarat University, Ahemdabad
• University of Rajastha, Jaipur
• Jodhpur University, Jodhpur
• University of Calicut, Kerela

The various job prospects, which a student has, after completing his education in Psychology are:

v     Working as a counseling psychologist, helping people to overcome with their personal, educational, or social problems

v     Research Psychologist, who deal with the social, physical and emotional aspects of the human behavior

v     Clinical Psychologists, who work in community homes or in hospitals for the children or old age people

v     Social psychologists, work on the perceptional, emotional and social aspect of the human behavior

v     Developmental Psychologists, deal with the behavioral and other changes with the development of the human being from his childhood to his being an adult.

v     Applied psychology deals with the market research, counseling, mental health services in hospitals, personal clinics, rehabilitation centers, etc.

v     Neuro Psychologists deals with the oncology, head injury, medical practices, in the field of neurology.

v     Consumer Psychologists works on the consumer behaviors and various market researches done to evaluate their reactions and needs.

v     Educational Psychologists deal with the framing of various educational formats, study materials and courses, designed for the students according to their needs and their level of understanding.

v     Criminal and legal Psychologists work for the betterment of criminals, they study their behavior and mind set-up to know the reason for their crime and help them getting out of the bars.

So, we can say, that a psychology students has very interesting and a challenging career profiles in front of him, by which he also indirectly contributes to the country’s social and economical development.